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Ruam P. F. A. Pimentel
I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people1, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times2, and built packages for R3 that let you do magic4.
Currently searching for a position that allows me to build tools leveraging a combination of visualization, machine learning, and software engineering to help people explore and understand their data in new and useful ways.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Psychology, Quantitative Psychology (Minor)
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH (USA)
2024 - 2019
- Teaching and Research Assistant
M.S., Psychology, Psychological Assessment (Area)
Universidade São Francisco
Campinas, SP (Brazil)
2019 - 2018
- Thesis: …
- Teaching Assistant
Specialization in Neuroscience (300 hrs)
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Santos, SP (Brazil)
2019 - 2018
- Thesis: …
B.S., Psychology
CEULP/ULBRA
Palmas, TO (Brazil)
2017 - 2012
- Thesis: …
- Teaching and Research Assistant
Research Experience
Normative Data Collection Coordinator (Research Assistant)
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Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System (R-PAS)
Current - 2021
Organize international data collection across 17 countries.
Provide resources for data collectors
to be update
Translation and Adaptation of the Personality Assessment Inventory to Portuguese (Research Assistant)
N/A
N/A
Current - 2020
- Assist in all drafts and analysis.
- Organize and clean items for translation.
- Backtranslation (Portuguese to English).
- Run psychometrics (e.g., internal consistency, validity studies, norms).
Teaching Assistant
N/A
The University of Toledo
2021 - 2019
- Statistical Methods 1 (for grad student)
- Statistical Methods 2 (for grad student)
- Personality (for undegrad)
- Statistics (for undergrad)
Teaching Assistant
N/A
Universidade São Francisco
2019 - 2018
- Thesis advising I (for undegrad)
- Thesis advising II (for undergrad)
Teaching Assistant
N/A
CEULP/ULBRA
2017 - 2014
- Morphophysiology and human behavior
- Methods of psychological assessment
- Psychological assessment
- Neuropsychological assessment
Industry Experience
I have worked in a variety of roles ranging from journalist to software engineer to data scientist. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.
Teaching Experience
I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.
Javascript for Shiny Users
RStudio::conf 2020
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2020
- Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
- Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.5
Data Visualization Best Practices
DataCamp
N/A
2019 - 2019
- Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
- Uses R and ggplot2.
- In top 10% on platform by popularity.
Improving your visualization in Python
DataCamp
N/A
2019 - 2019
- Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
- Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.
Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2018 - 2017
- TA and lectured
- Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
- Highest level course offered in department
Advanced Statistical Computing
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2018 - 2018
- TA and lectured
- Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
- 4th year PhD level class
Statistical Computing in R
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2017 - 2017
- TA and lectured
- Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
- Graduate level class
Selected Data Science Writing
I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog LiveFreeOrDichotomize.6
Selected Press (About)
Selected Press (By)
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Aplicativo de administração remota do R-PAS: Dados preliminares de equivalência (R-PAS Remote Administration Application: Preliminary equivalence data)
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Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Desenvolvimento do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Development of the R-PAS administration app)
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Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Uso do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Use of the R-PAS administration app)
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One for All and All for One: Culture, Personality, and Governmental Policies Predicting Mask-Wearing in an International Sample
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- presentation
Opções e Desafios da pesquisa com Testes de Perfomance em tempos pandêmicos (Options and Challenges of Research with Performance Tests in Pandemic Times)
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- presentation
Beyond the ‘Mask Wars’: Cross-national comparison of health protective behaviors, government compliance, and empathy
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- presentation
The Pfister colored pyramid test and its use in C/TA
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- presentation
Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach: Uma Breve Introdução ao R-PAS (Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System: A brief introduction to R-PAS)
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- presentation
Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach Itermediário: Administração e Codifição (Intermediate Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration and Coding)
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- presentation
Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for Inperson and Remote Administration
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The influence of emotional valence over Source Memory in Aging Paper Presentation
ENAR 2020
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2020
- conferencePaper
- How and why building an R package can benefit methodological research
What do we know about the Source Memory in Aging? A review Paper presentation
RStudio::conf 2020
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2020
- presentation
- Focus on how software development and methodological research can improve both benefit when done in tandem.
Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for In-Person and Remote Administration
Bioinformatics
N/A
2020
- presentation
- See landing page7 for more information.
Comparing committed Forensic Inpatients to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity of Not Using Scores from the Rorschach task and Self-report
Chest
N/A
2019 - 2019
- thesis
Impacto de Exergames na qualidade de vida de idosos
RStudio::conf 2019
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2019 - 2019
- conferencePaper
Sentiment Analysis in Rorschach responses e-poster for online conference.
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series
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2019 - 2019
- conferencePaper
Relation between R-PAS and BFI2 moderate by R-PAS self-perception indicators: preliminary studies Paper presentation
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
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2019
- conferencePaper
- Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.
Comparing Patients with Schizophrenia to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity or Not Using Scores from the Rorschach Task and Self-Report
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2019
- presentation
- Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.
Malingering severe psychopathology on the Rorschach task: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2018 - 2018
- journalArticle
Coding criteria for Breaking the Card Boundary (BCB)
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam
N/A
2017 - 2017
- presentation
- Successfully met qualifying examination standards
Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD
Journal of Human Immunology
N/A
2015 - 2015
- journalArticle
Funcionamento patológico da personalidade para predição da depressão, qualidade de vida e esperança
International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference
N/A
2015 - 2015
- manuscript
Links
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/26/us/college-student-migration.html
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/
- https://github.com/nstrayer/shinysense
- http://nickstrayer.me/dataDayTexas/
- http://nickstrayer.me/js4shiny_r2d3/slides
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/
- https://prod.tbilab.org/phewas_me_info/